I have included this lead off scenario about a kid robbing a McDonald’s and hanging around a bad crowd. This is what happens when you quit listening to your parents, quit going to church, and start doing drugs. I hope all of you are taking notes.

Still trying to follow the logic on page 130. It seems to say that Biblical couples’ arrangements were OK because that was the culture of their time, and that God follows human marriage laws. Which would seem to destroy the whole argument this book is trying to make.

“Frustrated, I threw the book at my locker and it popped right open! I threw it at a few other lockers hoping to plunder what was inside, but nothing happened. I guess there’s only enough magic in each book for one locker. I wouldn’t recommend buying a used one because it may already be spent.”

“A word of warning, I eventually gave up this practice of unlocking my locker after learning about the 1991 ruling by the Magisterium on the use of various unorthodox prayers for opening lockers.”

I went to vacation Bible school at Bethany (it’s a church, K-12 school, and Bible college in addition to a publishing house). Remember the giant Oreos that existed for about 10 minutes in the 80s? I used to buy those in the bookstore with my dollar that was meant for the collection. So Lorraine’s wisdom didn’t work on me either.

You can’t get your locker open because God doesn’t love you? Well God must have *really* hated me because my first year of junior high I had never used a locker before and couldn’t figure out how to operate a combination lock for at least a couple of months, other kids broke into my locker and stole from it, would scream out my combination constantly, and one time they goobered up the lock with their own saliva. I still have dreams at night where I’m leaving school for the day but don’t remember the combination or where my locker even is.

Did the devil tell that poor blonde girl on the cover to have her hair cut into a mullet? I think I’d make an exception for that…

On a more serious note, the story involving Jay only says he rebelled against his strict parents. They didn’t mention HOW they were strict though. While too much leniency with a kid can be bad, being too strict can be just as bad or sometimes even worse.